Virtual Backgrounds for Jabber

[Douglas Baggett]

I know it sounds TRIVIAL, but now that zoom, webex and others have virtual backgrounds and blur...has anybody heard if Jabber UC is going to get this feature (I get questions from customers about it).

People also want it in CMS WebRTC meetings as well.

[Jaime Valencia]

Roadmap items are NDA, thus, cannot be discussed in public forums.

You would need to ask this via your SE.

[Douglas Baggett]

thanks!

[Adam Pawlowski]

If you use something that presents as a camera that offers this, then you can accomplish it. It's obviously not a thing that is suitable for most customers. I use Manycam myself which now works again since 12.9 without crashing Jabber. I can do chroma key or software background replacement and its the same between all the conferencing apps because it comes through the "camera".

Again not scalable and I doubt it will ever appear in Jabber IMO.

[rikardkrvaric]

My Quadcore i7 increases about 50% in CPU power when using the virtual backgrounds in Webex... Cisco still has to figure out how to do it without killing the CPU... perhaps THEN can they consider adding it to Jabber...

[Douglas Baggett]

To be fair, Zoom also has pretty strict requirements for virtual backgrounds as well (only 8th gen intel CPU or equivalent).

Unfortunately, ever since Zoom made them popular my management expects to have that.

[Adam Pawlowski]

Yeah and I see it in the release notes for Teams client now too . I guess I could be surprised that the components in Jabber could be updated to support it . I noted a pretty nasty frame rate drop (at least in the self view / reflected grid square) when using this in Webex, and I have an AMD 3700X if it's using CPU so I would not have expected that.